Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PERFORMANCE collapses during an adaptation of Amerika and throughout any of the other scenes in which Julie Ince, playing the thoroughly unnecessary part of the Woman, dominates. Ince is the sort of actress who points her toes a lot; what part the sensuous mannequin has in the world of Kafka is hard...
...fingertips are never wrong. So I pay more attention to texture." He spends hours and hours polishing the stone to produce surfaces both beautiful and sensuous. In fact, at the Staempfli there is a sign up saying "Please Touch." That is as it should...
...objects, dug out of the rubble of Tell el Amarna and now on exhibition in Brooklyn, testify dramatically to the marked change in style and approach that the young Sun King instigated. It was a new particularity - a King with a paunch, a courtier with a sullen mouth, a sensuous Queen. Even the beasts of the field were liberated from the frozen rhythmic frieze of an earlier time. The result was an art vivid as yesterday, eternal as tomorrow...
Palestrina: The Song of Songs (Prague Madrigal Choir; Miroslav Venhoda conductor; Vanguard/ Bach Guild, $2.98). The great Renaissance polyphonist, best known for soaring church works like the Pope Marcellus Mass, here took his text, somewhat uncharacteristically, from Solomon's highly sensuous biblical verses: "A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." The result: one of Palestrina's two or three loveliest works, sung movingly by the Czech performers...
...sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid," he once said. "It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live." His will endured, but his strength finally faltered. Last week Eddie Rickenbacker died in Zurich, of a heart ailment, at the age of 82. In his final years he had remained spry, cantankerous and active, devoting much of his time to right-wing political causes. TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin recalls seeing him disembark from a jetliner at Washington's Dulles Airport only a year ago, gruffly rejecting someone's offer to help...